Countries
Norway
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
National Language
Norway
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Nynorsk
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Interesting Facts
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
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Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
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Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
hallo
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
takk
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
god natt
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
god kveld
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
god morgen
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
Vær så snill
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
unnskyld
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
ha det
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Dialect 2
Sognamål
Olonets
Where They Speak
Sogn
Olonets
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Novgorod
Native Name
Norsk
Русский
Alternative Names
Norsk
Russki
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
russe
German Name
Nynorsk
Russisch
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Russians
Origin
c. 1300 AD
1000 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Eastern
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Standard Russian
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Signed Russian
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
Glottocode
norw1258
russ1263
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic
Norwegian and Russian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Norwegian and Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Norwegian and Russian language. Norwegian word for "Hello" is hallo or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Norwegian Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Norwegian vs Russian Difficulty
The Norwegian vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Norwegian Alphabets and Russian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Norwegian and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Norwegian and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Norwegian is 24 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.